Rubbinns wrote on Oct 15^th, 2015 at 5:44pm:

I've got a 14Paladin/6Ranger build that I got the idea for from the Builds section.

I like it well enough but even though it won't really NEED to be changed now. I've been toying with the idea of TRing into a Shadar-Kai and making it a pure 20 Ranger Deepwood Stalker with emphasis on ranged sneak damage. I'd also put a lot of APs into AA for obvious reasons.

If possible, I'd like to test it out on Lam first before I commit to it on the Live server though.

Vaultaccount wrote on Oct 15^th, 2015 at 7:57am:

My point exactly. I loves me some S&B Paladin (which was tough enough to build right before.)

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Paladin with a crossbow is… Dubious, to say the least. But some people invested in building one, so it's a nerf, technically. Regardless of anyone's feelings about the "lore" of it.

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Except people like my Guildee, who always has at least one toon on an Arty life. I personally don't care about Throwers myself, but I consider the people rolling them perverse, which I am 100% supportive of.

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Nope. Still Gaytarded.


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The problem isn't the PRR, the value of which can be debated. It's the removal of the MRR that's the kick in the scrotum. It was the only means Heavy Armour users had to mitigate almost all incoming AoE attacks and magical Reflex damage.

A problem the Devs acknowledged when they implemented PRR/ MRR in the first place. Their piss-poor quest design meant that your Pally/ Fighter/ Cleric/ Barb couldn't run Double Dragon or Deathwyrm without piking in the corner, or more likely, as a Soul Stone because the ridiculous AoE effects made Evasion mandatory.

Since these feats will now be the only (as I read it, may be subject to change, HaHaHa) way to replace that lost MRR, they become "must haves."

Or more likely, "Won't Needs" because everyone will be back wearing bathrobes in Mountain Stance, or splashing 2 Rogue (if you don't/ can't be Lawful.)

So yeah, I'll gripe about that shit all fucking day, because it kills build diversity, pure and splashed, yet again.

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Affects my life not at all, so meh. Also, trees are perverse. See above.


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It sucks mostly because Rangers FINALLY stopped sucking like a $2 hooker, and then they pulled the rug out from underneath them, again.

Which was done entirely because their (current Dev team's) inability to extrapolate consequences resulted in all kinds of Dance-of-Death Pally-Rangers* (without the colour coded costumes or Dinozords) rampaging through content unchecked.

A move that seems grossly unfair, since none of the other fighting styles (THF, SWF) caught the Nerf Hammer to address "over performance." Especially when glancing blows (unless I am mistaken) are still handing out a broken 100% damage.

So 6 Melee Power may not break any builds, but it was another Donkey Punch to Tempest Rangers and to TWF in general.

*I would pay real world money for Power Ranger cosmetic outfits.

Vaultaccount wrote on Oct 15^th, 2015 at 7:24pm:

I dislike the point, but agree with it.

What continues to frustrate is that I know an actual fucking professional would be able to come up with a better solution than instakilled? yes/no.

For this, and so, so many other hamfisted bumblefucked "solutions" from Turbine.

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just so I know if I should be as butthurt as everyone else, what else is a competence bonus for critical threat range?

painkiller wrote on Oct 16^th, 2015 at 8:19am:


This is actually a minor change.  All the class bonuses to crit threat range are typed as competence.  They didn't explicitly state it, so they went back and cleaned it up to make it clear.  It stops people from trying to find a way to get the crit range expansion from two different classes simultaneously.  I don't know of any builds that were doing this prior as the only enhancements that had it were conflicting for the most part.  At least until the ranger pass.

There is lots to be upset about in this thread, but I'm not sure that is one of them.  The ravager change to self healing is a bigger deal.

Rubbinns wrote on Oct 15^th, 2015 at 5:44pm:


Why change your character BEFORE the patch?  that seems a less than ideal decision on your part. 

Grand wrote on Oct 16^th, 2015 at 11:20am:


What TWF barb build was stacking crititical threat range with another class enhancement?

I'm confused by this.

Asheras wrote on Oct 16^th, 2015 at 12:17pm:


Obviously.

Vaultaccount wrote on Oct 14^th, 2015 at 9:09pm:

You know, I offered to pay for Fran's assisted suicide and I think you went a little too far with that post.

Unlike others I take pity on people,

chuck chuck chuck

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Now try and keep up man, you're in danger of exposing just how ingnorant of build theory you are